The Role of Self-Help

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It is the inevitable consequence of the absence from international practice of a ready-made set of judgment enforcement measures placed at the disposal of the judgment creditor by an external agency and deriving its powers from a superior sovereignty, that self-help supplies a practical basis for the actions of the injured judgment creditor.1 Self-help leaves to that State full liberty to take such measures as it deems fit in order to obtain satisfaction of the judgment in it…

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Malcolm N. Shaw,
“The Role of Self-Help”, in:
Rosenne's Law and Practice of the International Court: 1920-2015.
Consulted online on 18 August 2017 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-5992_rose_COM_0047>